Примеры clout

• He gave them drink and food; costly goods he gave them all: capes without price, and valuable breech clouts, and devices, and costly shields.

• Clout's words, both these unfortunate patients and humanity require.

• Is it reasonable to expect a man you are clouting on the jaw to offer you his wage packet?

• The first, a simple one, has often been discussed here—that it used to be erroneously believed that clouting the trade unions was a vote winner.

• There may be a row at that very moment, and it is usually the innocent ones who get clouted and not the guilty ones.

• They do not engage in it lightly, because it also clouts them economically.

• Has the thoughts unravel, he ends up injuring himself by clouting the wall out of agony.

• They were also active elsewhere, since media ownership invests some political clout.